Paatusoq, mentioned as 'Patursok' by Wilhelm August Graah,W. A. Graah, Narrative of an expedition to the East coast of Greenland, p. 69 is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southeastern Greenland.Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 100 Its name means "The one with the big mouth" in Greenlandic.Greenland Pilot; Explanations of the place names
Geography Paatusoq Fjord extends in a roughly east–west direction for about between the Danell Fjord to the north and the Kuutseq Fjord to the south. To the east the fjord opens into the North Atlantic Ocean southwest of Cape Discord. There are two rocks awash in its mouth and Qasingortoq, a point marks its entrance. Danell Fjord lies close to the north, running parallel to Paatusoq.
Paatusoq has a short branch midway into its southern shore at about from the fjord's mouth with a glacier reaching down to the waterline. Mountains In the western part of Paatusoq the mountain ranges on both sides of the fjord rise steeply from the shore to heights of about . The massive succession of mountains on the northern side culminates in Mount Paatusoq (Patuersoq), a magnificent ultra-prominent peak at towering to a height of above the glacier at the head of the fjord.GoogleEarth This mountain is marked as a peak in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts.1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet D-16
See also List of fjords of Greenland List of Ultras of Greenland
Bibliography The Lost Gardar Intrusion: Critical Metal Exploration at the Paatusoq Syenite Complex, South East Greenland
References
External links Den grønlandske Lods - Geodatastyrelsen The Magmatic and Fluid Evolution of the Motzfeldt Intrusion in South Greenland: Insights into the Formation of Agpaitic and Miaskitic Rocks Ketilidian structure and the rapakivi suite between Lindenow Fjord and Kap Farvel, South-East Greenland The Ketilidian orogen of South Greenland: geochronology, tectonics, magmatism, and fore-arc accretion during Palaeoproterozoic oblique convergence Photographs just in from Paatusoq site 22 September 2014